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Hi all as anyone ad trouble with there GP i went last week due to coughin horible sputum up said i need to send sample up in 2 weeks i know myself wen it gets bad im wondering if anyone as claimed owt for this dieseas does anyone know if it can turn into copd
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aitarg35939 tony_15641
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I don't know, Tony, about the COPD. I know folks like me who already had either emphysema or chronic bronchitis forms of COPD before they got BX, but I've not a clue if it can work in reverse.
That said and you being in the UK, call that jerk of a GP & ask for immediate referral to the pulmo nurse or clinic & pulmonary rehab. Or go to emergency/ casualty. Where I am in the States, emergency rooms hop to it for lung problems, and they hop even faster if there's any chest pain.
Is this the GP who wrote the referral to the lung consultant, the referral that seems to be based upon the gestational period of an elephant? Or was this just someone else you got stuck with on the day? It sounds like the latter & like this one knows zilch about BX.
I am so sorry it's taking so long for you to get the care you need. Took me 4 months to see a pulmo but in the interim I got ABs when I needed them.
tony_15641 aitarg35939
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